Banned Books
Banned Books: Who Decides?
This year’s Collingswood Book Festival invites you to join a panel and conversation on the book banning debate, the broader implications for freedom of information and censorship, at 2 p.m. on 10/5/2024, in the YA tent. Despite increased cultural awareness, 1500 books been banned in the last three years. Authors Erin Entrada Kelly (Hello, Universe), Eric Smith (Don’t Read the Comments), Kimberly Kenna (Jett Jamison and the Secret Storm), Maria Andreu (Love in English), and moderator Rosemary Cline (Audiobook Narrator) will take part in this session as it aims to foster a balanced conversation on ethics, representation, freedom of information and expression, and censorship.
How Technology Can Help Us Determine Why Certain Books Get Banned
This year’s Collingswood Book Festival includes a panel in the YA tent on book banning at 3 p.m. featuring the co-lead of Temple University Representation Lab, Alex Wermer-Colan. The lab is digitizing and text mining banned books in order to identify patterns such as adjectives commonly used to describe characters of color or dialogue based on gender identity. The panel will include students involved in the project and will be moderated by Rosemary Cline. Panelists will discuss the process of their work as well as early findings. For more information on the project: https://tinyurl.com/2k64cr5p